Our Commitment to Privacy

We are committed to protecting the privacy of our subscribers' personal information. To better protect your privacy, we provide this Privacy Policy explaining our online and offline information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or Terms of Use, please send an e-mail. General inquiries may be sent to info@cfah.org and will be checked occasionally by former CFAH staff until June 2015.

Keeping You Informed of Changes

We may need to amend our privacy policy from time to time in order to address new issues and reflect changes on our site. Any changes to our privacy policy will be posted here so that you will always know what information we collect, how we use it, and whether we will disclose the information to other organizations. Please refer to this page for policy updates regularly.

Online Information Gathering

Information collected online is often defined as being either anonymous or personally identifiable. Anonymous information cannot be tied back to a specific individual. Personally identifiable information lets us know the specifics of who you are, such as your name, e-mail or postal address, phone and fax numbers. The choice of how much of your personally identifiable information you choose to disclose to the Center for Advancing Health is up to you.

The Center may use the information that we collect to conduct surveys of our subscribers. Other than required demographic information, we will not ask for personally identifiable information. The Center reserves the right to perform statistical analyses of the responses to such surveys. Whenever possible we will make the information we collect about our subscribers available to our subscribership as anonymous information.

On certain pages of our site, we give you the option of providing us with names, addresses, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, demographic and other personal and financial information. This information will be used to send requested materials, a tax receipt (if a donation is made), or purchased items. We do not gather this more personal information without your knowing and active permission and participation.

Non-disclosure

We will never intentionally disclose any personal information collected from you on our site to any third party without having received your permission. In other words, without such permission, we will not sell, rent, loan or give personally identifiable user information collected from you on our site to marketers or any other third parties. The only exception to this is if the Center is required by law enforcement or judicial authorities to provide personally identifiable information to the appropriate governmental authorities. However, as with any Internet transmission that is not encrypted, the risk of disclosure to unintended third parties exists.

Links to Other Websites

You may find links to other sites or services on the Center's site. We do not control the content or links that appear on these sites. The fact that we have made these links available to you is not an endorsement or recommendation to you by the Center. Other companies or agencies linked to this site may collect information about you when you view or click on these sites. We cannot control this collection of information. You should contact these content providers directly if you have any questions about their use of the information they collect. These sites and services may have their own privacy policies, or no policy at all. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third party sites or services before providing any of them with your personal information.

Information Requests

If you have provided us with any personal information during a prior visit to or use of the Center's website, you may request that we delete your personal information in its entirety from the databases maintained in connection with our site by sending an e-mail. General inquiries may be sent to info@cfah.org and will be checked occasionally by former CFAH staff until June 2015.

Security

It is the Center's policy that personal information, such as your name, postal and e-mail address or telephone number, is private and confidential. Accordingly, the personal information you provide is stored in a secure location, is accessible only by designated staff, and is used only for the purposes for which you provide the information.

Cookies

Like many web sites, we use "cookie" technology. A "cookie" is a piece of data stored on the user's machine that enables the browser to store and recall information and only has meaning to the Center's web site. This cookie is used to facilitate access to http://www.cfah.org. More information about cookies can be found at http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/c/cookie.html.

Hold Harmless and Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless The Center for Advancing Health, its officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors and suppliers, from and against any claims, actions or demands, and liabilities including without limitation reasonable legal and accounting fees, resulting from, or alleged to result from, your use of this site in a manner that violates or is alleged to violate these conditions.

BY ENTERING THE SITE YOU HEREBY EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT THE CENTER FOR ADVAINCING HEALTH AND ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, AGENTS AND EMPLOYEES SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DAMAGES, CLAIMS, DEMANDS OR CAUSES OF ACTION, DIRECT OR INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE, AS A RESULT OF YOUR USE OF THE SITE OR ANY INFORMATION YOU OBTAIN ON IT OR ANY OTHER INTERACTION WITH THE CENTER FOR ADVANCING HEALTH. IN DOING SO, YOU AGREE THAT YOU ARE WAIVING VOLUNTARILY AND UNEQUIVOCALLY ANY LIABILITY OF THE CENTER FOR ADVANCING HEALTH.

Copyright and Copying

This entire website is protected by copyright owned by The Center for Advancing Health. Certain articles or materials on the website are also separately copyrighted by other entities or individuals. All rights reserved. If you find these materials useful, you may download them and send a copy to others so long as each copy indicates the appropriate copyright notice: Copyright 2015 Center for Advancing Health, and is only for personal use. But it is absolutely prohibited to reprint or electronically reproduce any text, document, graphic or audio or visual material for business or commercial use. For special copyright permission or general inquiries, write to info@cfah.org. This email address will be active and checked occasionally by former CFAH staff until June 2015.

Health Behavior News Service (HBNS): Reproductions

This entire website inclduing the Health Behavior News Service is protected by copyright owned by The Center for Advancing Health. All rights reserved. When reproducing any HBNS materials, including interview excerpts, latest research news stories, Prepared Patient feature articles, FAQ's, First Person pieces and all other HBNS content attribution to the "Health Behavior News Service, part of the Center for Advancing Health," is required.

Prepared Patient® Trademark

Prepared Patient® is a registered trademark of the Center for Advancing Health. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office registration number 3,923,178, registered February 22, 2011.

Acceptance of Privacy Policy and Terms of Use

By using this website, you signify your acceptance of our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.

General inquiries may be sent to info@cfah.org and will be checked occasionally by former CFAH staff until June 2015.

MISSION

The Center for Advancing Health works to increase people's engagement in their health care.

Since it was founded in 1992, the Center for Advancing Health has aimed to increase people's engagement in their health and health care.

While advances in medical knowledge have been responsible for steady increases in the length and quality of life of Americans, the potential of health care to improve individual and population health in the future rests increasingly in the hands of individuals. Whether we are sick or well, we will not benefit from the expertise of health professionals and the technologies they deploy unless we participate actively and knowledgably in our own care. More

*Founded in 1992 by Jessie Gruman, PhD, president until her death in July 2014, the Center for Advancing Health closed December 31, 2014. Supported by the Jessie Gruman Memorial Fund, cfah.org resources will remain online until January 2020.